links inside display:column tags in table

[Karol Waga]

I have a JSP page that displays table using

    <display:column maxLength="100" escapeXml="true" sortable="true"  property="organization.name" title="${organizationTitle}"/>

I need to make the title of the column a link to another page that opens in a new tab/window. I tried for example following

<a id="transButton" href="<c:url value="/app/organization/${organization.id}/"/>" target = "_blank" title="${organizationTitle}">

and

<display:column maxLength="100" escapeXml="true" sortable="true" url="/app/organization/${organization.id}" property="organization.name" title="${organizationTitle}"/>

and

<display:column maxLength="100" escapeXml="true" sortable="true" title="${organizationTitle}"><a id="transButton" href="/app/organization/${organization.id}/>" target = "_blank" title="${organizationTitle}"/></display:column>

but the organization.id is undefined although I can see the proper url when I define it as a variable outside of <a> tags.

[K. Tsang]

Welcome to the Ranch

I see you are using the display tag library. Have you looked at the docs here?

Just curious, did you set those variables accordingly?

[Karol Waga]

Thank you!

Yes, I went through the docs you linked earlier.

As I understood from them if property for display:column is null it should put HTML from inside <display:column> tag.

As for the variables, if for example I put organization.id or organization.name in display:column tag's property i.e. property="organization.id" I can see proper value. however in url="/app/organization/${organization.id}" organization.id is empty.

[K. Tsang]

Karol Waga wrote:
As for the variables, if for example I put organization.id or organization.name in display:column tag's property i.e. property="organization.id" I can see proper value. however in url="/app/organization/${organization.id}" organization.id is empty.

Don't know much about the display tags but have you tried not enclosing the variable in ${} or make the entire url into a variable and plug that in instead?

I noticed the property field in the <display:column> tag you didn't use ${} yet the title field you do (cos maybe it's a defined variable?)